What makes your car a total loss is defined by one thing, the estimate to repair your car exceeds the value of your cars actual cash value. Or at least that’s what they tell you. Once the estimate reaches a certain threshold usually determined by the Kelly Blue book, the car is presumed a total […]
Auto Estimator Training – Part 3 – Insurance Companies Are Like The IRS.mov
Donnie-Smith.com – How is the IRS and insurance companies similar? In this video we are going to talk about that and continue our discussion about getting paid for non-included items. The p-pages are a very important part of learning how to properly write estimates. That is why we have broke
Auto Repair Estimates Lesson 6 – Types of Parts
LESSON 1 – LESSON 2 – LESSON 3 – LESSON 4 – LESSON 5 – LESSON 6 – LESSON 7 – LESSON 8 – LESSON 9 – LESSON 10 Welcome to Auto Repair Estimating. These lessons are designed to provide you with the basics to Auto Estimating. I hope you enjoy the lesson. Donnie Lesson 6 – Types of Parts […]
Auto Repair Estimates – Part 4 – How To Get Paid For What You Do
Get Paid For What You Do If you write auto repair estimates for a body shop and you’re not looking though all of your not included items in your p-pages, you are leaving a lot of money unclaimed. These are operations that must be performed to complete the job. Therefore, the shop and the technician […]
Where Does it End?
I recently wrote a blog about insurance companies requiring shops to cut corners to lower the auto repair costs. This really happens; however, I like to give my students as many opinions and point-of-views that I can. There is a lot going on out there in the automotive/insurance industries, which makes it hard to determine […]